Communist Party of Canada (Ontario)

The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) is the Ontario, Canada provincial wing of the Communist Party of Canada. Using the name Labor-Progressive Party, the group won two seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario: A.A. MacLeod and J.B. Salsberg served as Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) from 1943 until 1951 and 1955 respectively. It has not been able to win any seats at the provincial level since then. The party continued to run under the Labor-Progressive banner up to the 1959 provincial election, after which it identified itself as the Communist Party.

Individual members of the party have been elected to school boards in the past few decades, but have done so as independents rather than as "Communist Party" candidates. The party is led by Liz Rowley.

Recent election results

• September 6, 2012 provincial by-elections: Kitchener—Waterloo, 87 votes (0.19%), seventh out of ten candidates.

Party leaders

• Leslie Morris (1945 election)
• A.A. MacLeod 1945-1951 (1948 election)
• Stewart Smith 1951 until he quit the party in 1957 (1951 election), (1955 election)
• Bruce Magnuson 1957-1970 (1959 election,^[1] 1963 election^[2] and 1967 election^[3])
• William Stewart 1970-1980 (1971 election, 1975 election and 1977 election)
• Mel Doig (1981 election)
• Gordon Massie (1985 and 1987 elections)
• Elizabeth Rowley (1990 election)
• Darrell Rankin (1995 election)
• Hassan Husseini 1998-c. 2001 (1999 election)
• Elizabeth Rowley c. 2001-present (2003 election, 2007 election and 2011 election)

References

See also

• List of Ontario general elections
• List of Ontario political parties
• Communist Party candidates, 2003 Ontario provincial election

External links

• Communist Party of Ontario

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